On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM, John Aldridge
<john.aldridge_at_informatix.co.uk> wrote:
...
> I have another use case related to this: HTML documents. The problem is that
> we have various HTML editors in use, all of which have different ideas about
> how to layout HTML. The result is that diffs & blame are pretty much
> useless. A custom diff tool might help a bit, but blame will still be a
...
> Apart from just living with the problem, there seem to be a few options:
...
> c) Implement a pre-commit hook which checks that the data is already in some
> standard format as produced by htmltidy, and rejects the commit if not.
>
> It would be nice, though, to be able to run htmltidy automatically as part
> of the commit process. Whilst I wouldn't want to run a pretty printer over
> (e.g.) C++ source code -- people are entitled to have their carefully
> considered code layout respected, IMO -- I think the issues are different
> with HTML where people generally don't look at the raw text even when
> editing a document.
Agree.
> It would be nicest if this could be done server-side, because otherwise
> there might be problems with people using different repositories with
> different canonicalization rules, and because there are otherwise client
> configuration and deployment issues.
John, great idea, I'm on your side--I vote yes!
-Tom
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Received on 2008-08-28 13:46:06 CEST